Quotes About Independence

Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.

Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.

Avoid the crowd, avoid mass audiences, keep your own counsel, which is the counsel of philosophy of wisdom you can acquire and make your own.

My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.

It is foolish to try to imitate the skills of others.

The greater the spirit, the more one is alone.

When two partners always agree, one of them is not necessary." If there is some point you haven't thought about, be thankful if it is brought to your attention.

Build wisdom and confidence in others by forcing them to think and decide for themselves.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

The hardest thing over the years has been having the courage to go against the dominant wisdom of the time, to have a view that is at variance with the present consensus and bet that view.

Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.

No matter how efficient school training may be, it would only produce stagnation, orthodoxy, and rigid pedantry if there were no uncommon men pushing forward beyond the wisdom of their tutors.

And yet we check and chide The airy angels as they float about us, With rules of so-called wisdom, till they grow The same tame slaves to custom and the world.

Ignore the received wisdom of any industry you're entering. Never be trapped by dogma. Never let other people's opinions drown out your own inner voice.

We must not be misled by the claim that the source of all wisdom is in the government.

A boy is supremely confident of his own power, and dislikes being treated as a child.

All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.

originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

But if not Kelso, then something else, because a free people must own the nation they live in.

Save now, so you are not dependent on your children when you are old

Stress the right of the individual to select only what he desires to know, to use any knowledge as he wishes, that he himself owns what he has learned.

It is not too soon to provide by every possible means that as few as possible shall be without a little portion of land. The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

Today it is difficult to find leaders who are independent of the forces that have brought us our problems: The Congress, the bureaucracy, the lobbyists, big business, and big labor.

We must give the American worker the first option of ownership.